Claude Sempère died at the age of 55. The journalist and great reporter on France 2 died of lung cancer in 2019, leaving his wife Dominique Lagrou-Sempère and their two children, Mathilda and Esteban. Release decided to dedicate her portrait of the day (that of March 25, 2022) to this woman who has chosen to give new meaning to her life.
In his book After the storm, Dominique Lagrou-Sempère evokes everything, without detour. The diagnosis of her husband’s illness, the darkest hours endured by the journalist and of course the farewell to this man she loved more than anything. To get up and not let death win, she decided to quickly return to work, she who collaborated with the very late Jean-Pierre Pernaut at TF1. She decides to become an active woman again, therefore, and a woman simply by finding love again. In her book, she also says that it was her two children who encouraged her to start a new life with a man other than their father. “Just as we don’t choose to die, we don’t choose to love. Fortunately, I loved and I love passionately“, she confided in November 2021 on France Inter.
A new love life and a professional shift made in December. Via her Twitter account, she announced that she would no longer work for TF1 after 20 years of good and loyal service. As it is known Release, she who earned around 4000 euros per month, will be unemployed after her waiting period. That’s not to say this strong, life-loving woman hasn’t planned other plans. It would be bad to know her. She “prospecting to host a one-on-one dialogue program on societal topicsand working on a novel.
But back to his past and present love. Dominique Lagrou-Sempère is therefore in a relationship with a man “who has a house in Limousin“. However, her late husband is never far away.”In two trunks she stored the clothes of the man before“we learn. She also made the choice to keep their house”modern and high pitched“, located in Sèvres. This is a great demonstration of how to move forward in life without forgetting the past.